As longtime readers know, I'm not a big fan of taking into account much (especially of the personal/personality/appearance sort) about authors when it comes to literary appreciation -- a losing fight in this age where image trumps everything.
Yet even I have to admit to being amused by Dmitriy Romendik considering The look of Russian literature: From Pushkin's sideburns to Solzhenitsyn's chin curtain at Russia Beyond the Headlines -- and there are some (semi-)valid points to this.
Anyway, the piece is worth it just for this inspired GIF of 'Mayakovsky's shaved head':
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Anyway, the piece is worth it just for this inspired GIF of 'Mayakovsky's shaved head':
